Datanauts 089: SRE vs. Cloud Native vs. DevOps

Rob Hirschfeld joins the Datanauts to talk about the term Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) and what it means for IT operations. Rob explores how the SRE designation is an effort to put operations teams on a more equal footing with developers within an organization. Rob and the Datanauts also discuss how SREs line up with other industry trends such as the cloud native and DevOps movements. This episode was inspired by Rob’s talk at DevOps Days Austin. Rob is CEO of RackN, which makes the Digital Rebar platform. He also joined the Datanauts in episode 72 to talk about OpenStack, Kubernetes and infrastructure automation. Show Links: Site Reliability Engineering – Google Datanauts 65: Cloudy With A Chance Of Ops with Charity Majors – Packet Pushers SRE vs Cloud Native vs DevOps”? Why do they conflict with one another? – Rob Hirschfeld DevOps Days Austin RackN Digital Rebar